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Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is a true crime documentary film that dropped on Netflix on August 29, 2025. This Skye Borgman-directed film chronicles a real-life incident of a teenage girl getting constant threatening messages on her phone. As per Letterboxd, its official synopsis reads:
A teenage girl and her boyfriend become the targets of relentless harassment from an anonymous phone number. As authorities dig deeper, they uncover a secret that challenges everything they originally believed about the case.
Borgman recently spoke about the shocking twist of the film and the dynamic between the mother and daughter. Let's find out more.
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish director Skye Borgman speaks about the twist
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish focuses on a teenage girl, Lauryn Licari, who started getting threatening text messages on her phone back in 2021. The messages suggested that her boyfriend Owen wants to break up with her and that he likes the sender of this message more than her. Police investigation led to a shocking revelation. The messages were sent by her mother, Kendra Licari. Lauryn kept receiving the messages for nearly two years, even after breaking up with Owen.
Kendra was eventually released from prison after serving a 16-month sentence. Director Skye Borgman spoke to Variety about the case and said that he received 350 pages of texts printed on both sides of the page. Talking about his interaction with Kendra, he said:
"Kendra is a little bit of an enigma. I think that she had a lot of time to think about what she did. She was in therapy when she was incarcerated, and I believe that she’s still seeing a therapist. She has put thought into what she did. I don’t know that she’s fully realized or recognized what it was that she did or why she did it. I guess only Kendra could really answer that."
The director also spoke about how Kendra's twist came through her interviews in Unknown Number: The High School Catfish.
"We sat down and talked with her, and because of the way that she conducted herself in the interview and because of what we knew and what we had come to find out in the story, we felt that it was pretty accurate to include her the way we did before we revealed that it was her who committed the cyberstalking."
Borgman also revealed that despite her deeds, Kendra was quite open to giving an interview for the doc.
Unknown Number: The High School Catfish is streaming on Netflix.
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